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dpk@chaos.social ("Daphne Preston-Kendal") wrote:

Everyone talks about not having senior devs in the future because we’re replacing the juniors with LLMs, but nobody’s talking about losing senior devs now because people who are competent and care about the quality of their work are leaving this LLM-infested hellscape of a career path to go into carpentry, hostelry, or subsistence farming

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
attoparsec@clacks.link ("Matthew Dockrey") wrote:

@nev @forestine It took me a long time to fully understand the difference between "wanting to be X" and "wanting to *do* X", which let me focus my energy a lot more effectively. That distinction is probably more critical now than ever.

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nev@status.nevillepark.ca ("Neville Park") wrote:

@forestine Tangent: this is one thing that gets me about the deluded LLM "physicists". Like, nobody likes the boring stuff like writing grant applications or marking a gazillion exams. But there are people who genuinely find the process of learning physics enjoyable. They took bio or chemistry and were like "nope, physics is for me." They don't want to skip any of the process. They find it rewarding to work through their giant textbooks, their dream is to work at CERN, whatever. If [generic] you don't like doing that, and you want to outsource all the "reading papers" and "hard math" stuff to a chatbot, maybe you don't like physics as much as you think you do! Maybe you should get into something you're wholly and genuinely passionate about!

It is pretty much exactly like "I don't want to learn synths or practice singing or whatever, I just want to have a song with a lot of plays on Spotify."

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The difference between science fiction and reality is that science fiction has to make sense.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Just realised that one of the reasons why I tend to react differently to things than many around me is because I think you’re defined by what you do and condone, not what you say or write.

“Did you read what he wrote?”

“Yeah, but did you see what he did?”

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“How Anthropic used AI ethics slop to play the pope and eclipse OpenAI”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-anthropic-used-its-ai-ethicslop

> Anthropic’s opportunism leaves a stain on the entire encyclical, which now, ironically, looks a bit like an accessory to helping the largest and richest AI company yet—not to mention the one aiming to sell the most job automation tools—reach new heights of power.

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kplx ("Kplx") wrote:

The People

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“How Anthropic used AI ethics slop to play the pope and eclipse OpenAI”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-anthropic-used-its-ai-ethicslop

> Powerful people enriching themselves at the expense of the poor is only an “unsolved problem” if, I don’t know, you have never seen a Robin Hood movie before.

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@cstross @resuna @webhat rsync is now Laundry Files fanfic

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SecureOwl@infosec.exchange ("Mike Sheward") wrote:

that's how i've always done it, Microsoft

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UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

Possibly the most frightening talent of the brown bear is an uncanny ability to blend seamlessly into the environment in an almost chameleon-like manner, allowing them to easily surprise their unsuspecting prey.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

jqwik is hotting up

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is very well observed, but every time I hear the name "Eric Schmidt" all I can think is "...you mean the guy who was caught colluding with Steve Jobs to suppress the wages of programmers?":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech%5FEmployee%5FAntitrust%5FLitigation

https://youtu.be/tlQ7EoJDTQY

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

shudders

i just read some summary for some tech event in san fran and it's uh... imaginative.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

@glyph I often entertain a "what if" thought about open source maintainers refusing to be voluntary suppliers by offering builds, releases, versioning and all that kind of care about consumers. And instead we go back to "this is a pile of code I wrote, see if you can find anything useful for yourself, but I'm not going to do you work for you".

jwz wrote:

Fluck Flock.

Flock is quietly training police to sway city leaders to buy surveillance tech: As East Bay communities raise concerns about civil liberties and immigration enforcement, the license plate camera company is seeking support from its...
https://jwz.org/b/yk79

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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD") wrote:

I have read that we forget 90% of our lives so I’d like to submit 2020-2028 to my brain for consideration of deletion.

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oglaf@socel.net ("Oglaf") wrote:

A selection of classic comic prints now available at our TopatoCo store! https://topa.to/oglaf

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robey@messydesk.social ("Robey ☠️") wrote:

i am here to announce we have reached 100% memory safety by ceasing to produce memory at all

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randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

A judge orders Trump's name removed from The Kennedy Center, and the child-in-chief loses it completely.

This is perfection. 😘👌

jwz wrote:

Help me keep home.mcom.com online.

I am once again seeking a contact inside the Yahoo DNS team.

Early this morning the "home" record vanished from the "mcom.com" domain. I need it put back.

My last contact there was Paul Frieden, in 2023, but the only email address I have bounces. Ideally I would ask Paul, "Hey, can you introduce me to your replacement?" Failing that, I'd like to find anyone currently on the team responsible for Yahoo's DNS records.
https://jwz.org/b/yk76

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

A short, fun diversion for the evening. "Emersion":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgFtwXie1dA

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

An abandoned building, Tuscany.

📷️️️️ Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Real talk: the real "supply chain risk" is that you treat your open source "supply chain" like shit and assume that we will all take any amount of abuse from you and just keep doing volunteer labor forever without ever complaining. And, equally real talk: most of us—myself included—actually do love the process and the community so much that you're right, and there will never be any real consequence.

But not all of us.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Remember that point in history around 2021 where suddenly there was a rush of supply-chain attacks that were all *VERY* focused on infostealer malware that could detect metamask wallets, specifically? Now imagine that instead of a few threat actors uploading a few scam typosquats, the people who are motivated enough to target you and want to ruin your life are your entire dependency supply chain, and the Metamask that marks you as a target is your Claude Max subscription.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Your chatbot being (hypothetically) momentarily commandeered to delete your local copy of the project that you were *already explicitly forbidden to use it on* is the gentlest possible introduction to this type of direct action and if it happens to you, you should be *very grateful* that this is how you got the message and not via something much more elaborate, insidious, and potentially life-changingly bad.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Like the fact that I show empathy and understanding and, increasingly, have a sort of "no ethical consumption" / "harm reduction" message about LLM use makes me a bad messenger for the message that not only are LLMs abstractly "harmful" but that there are people who you *are harming* and some of those people are not going to take it lying down.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Due to my somewhat prickly and precise definition of "software ethics" I would not, personally, do this, but I think it's good that someone has. The industry—and the "community", such as it is—needs a wake-up call. The conversation *around* this reminds me of the loud booing from commencement crowds as speakers wax rhapsodic about "AI" destroying their careers and their futures.

https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/issues/708

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mcc wrote:

Hey have you (reading this) used Tauri. How do you feel about Tauri

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
samd@social.coop ("Sam") wrote:

Normalize having a map of the starship in the front of science fiction novels like we have a map of the fantasy world in the front of a fantasy novel.

#scifi #sciencefiction #sff #reading